This year we are very proud to have been awarded the special Eco Flag for our ecological efforts!

Our school was inspected by Fiona Stanley and Helen Kelsall, the inspectors sent from the Eco-Schools project on 28th June. And as a result, the school was awarded the prestigious GREEN FLAG!!!!

The flag recognises our achievement in the Eco-Schools programme, which provides a simple framework which enables our school to analyse its operations and become more sustainable. In others words - reduce, reuse, and recycle!

Everyone gets involved!

There was a fantastic whole school effort involving pupils from Nursery to Year 6.

All the classes have been sorting their waste, into scrap paper, used paper, plastic, cardboard, cans, and glass. As well as this we sent used computer inks, cartridges and mobile phones for re-cycling. (www.recycool.org )

The classes have also been composting all the fruit and used paper towels in the composting bins. The garden are all looking wonderful after a 'make over', and the new wild flower garden has seen its first poppies, cornflowers and other wild flowers bloom , grown by the children from seed. There is a hedgehog den, a new small pond and bird boxes kindly donated by parents.

The quadrangle has been remodeled by the children and Mr. Lawlor who has relined the pond and kindly stocked it with fish and a pump to help keep the water clean.

Mrs. Parker (Shannon's grandma) has been busy with the children, growing, radishes, carrots, lettuces, tomatoes and strawberries, as well as supervising the wild life area project.

Mr. Dunstan, our caretaker, has been busy growing potatoes which Mrs. Banton, our school cook, is going to cook for us all to eat with our dinners!

Oh, and congratulations to Mrs. Banton and her kitchen staff who have just won gold award for healthy school dinners!!!

Thanks everyone for your hard work!

The Eco-Schools scheme is rooted in a genuine desire to help children become more effective citizens by encouraging them to take responsibility for the future of their own environment. It is not about environmental excellence, it is about our school starting to look at how it impacts upon the environment and how this is decided upon and can be managed.

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